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Films

Lovecraft has influenced and permeated all aspects of media and popular culture, including film. We will be showing films, hand picked from the archives of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and a few sneak peeks at what's in store for the 20th Anniversary Film Festival in October!

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Join us for a special presentation of The Mill at Calder's End, the follow up to The Narrative of Victor Karloch, featuring director Kevin McTurk on the making of this epic star-studded, puppet-driven, ghost story.

Preview some of the films already selected to play at the 20th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in October. Seating is limited, and is on a first come, first seated basis, so we recommend getting your seat early.

A virginal artist falls in love with a call girl who turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their God and destroying mankind. Not for the faint of heart, those fearful of blood, those offended by nudity, or those who prefer that Lovecraft be taken seriously! This is a fun and bloody romp, with a ton of clever references to the Old Gent's work by people who clearly know their Lovecraft... but just don't care if he gets a little sexed up. More tentacles and boobs than you can shake a Necronomicon at. No squares (or minors) will be admitted to this showing. Trigger warning: this film features non-consensual sexual relations with monsters and a bloody birth scene.

Back in the place of her childhood, in an oddly sinister port city, a young woman plagued with traumatic memories will discover that her destiny is even more cruel than the creatures running after her. LINK

When a down-on-his-luck blues musicians travels to the country to buy a guitar he suspects was stolen from him many years earlier, he finds that its hoodoo-practicing owner is reluctant to hand over the instrument, and she's got something more on her agenda than a simple sale.'The Case of Evil' is a black and white horror short styled after the great horror classics like 'Frankenstein', 'The Wolf Man', 'The Cat People' and others.

In the remote village of Calder's End stands an old windmill, a repository of dark secrets. Nicholas Grimshaw has returned to this haunted place, his childhood home, intent on breaking a generations-old family curse. Grimshaw's journey takes him deep below the decaying mill, into mysterious, forgotten catacombs, whereupon he confronts the very source of the evil that has corrupted his family.

Using the backdrop of Torrevieja scenery to tell the tale, with its coves and beaches providing a similar scene to Lovecraft's original short story, Spanish artist María Lorenzo Hernández brought the traditional imagery to life in a fusion with the modern world that also seems to reflect the past.

Mission statement

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival ® & CthulhuCon™ promotes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, literary horror, and Weird tales through cinematic adaptations by professional and independent filmmakers, as well special event, book signings and author readings, panel discussions, musical performances, and much more. The festival was founded in 1995 by Andrew Migliore in the hope that H.P. Lovecraft would be rightly recognized as a master of gothic horror and his work more faithfully adapted to film and television.

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